We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
JOHN F. KENNEDYThere are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
More John F. Kennedy Quotes
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Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
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Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
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Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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Sincerity is always subject to proof.
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In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
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